Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC
WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,498 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($61,692). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $834k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $119k
- Net assets
- $-319914
What Wisconsin Family Ties Inc does
Mission
Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. It accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about children with mental health needs and the benefits of family-driven systems of care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family support, advocacy, and information & assistance:the primary work of the agency is to provide a set of interrelated services to families that include children or adolescents with social, emotional, or behavioral challenges. This work is carried out by parent peer specialists, who are specifically trained for an information, support and advocacy role. The specific activities conducted by a parent peer specialist are individualized, based on the needs of the child and his/her family. In general, they work to break the loneliness, isolation and hopelessness that often grip these families. They teach skills, either directly or through modeling. They identify resources and assist the family in accessing and using those resources. They use relationships they've developed to help the family get their needs met.
$1,097,785 spent$360,833 earned by the program91% of program spendingChildren come first conference:the organization plans, coordinates and conducts the annual children come first conference, a statewide conference focusing on child and adolescent behavioral health. It was held during the fiscal year in october 2024 and total attendance was 612.
$102,059 spent$146,757 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,199,844.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $726k to $356k (−51%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 87% · 2018 85% · 2019 83% · 2020 87% · 2021 97% · 2022 88% · 2023 86% · 2024 54% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Hugh Davis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $19k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 73% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 95% · 2022 99% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $858k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$858k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC?
- WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,498 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($61,692). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $119,498 in grants to WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC?
- COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN FAMILY TIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing